Finish last in your league and they call you idiot. Finish last in medical school and they call you doctor.

You mean in the state?

The trouble with retirement is that you never get a day off.

We did have three go to the YMCA.

They wanted to buy out my contract, but I couldn't make change for a $20, so they had to let me stay.

Coaches who shoot par in the summer are the guys I want on my schedule in the winter.

You may be big in New York, but in Walters, Oklahoma, you're nobody.

Hell no. When I die I want to be sick.

Doctors bury their mistakes, but mine are still on scholarship.

If I make a set of rules, then a guy goes out and steals an airplane. He comes back and says, 'It wasn't in the rules.'

I'd rather be a football coach. That way you only lose eleven games a year.

It is considered as conduct when it comes into exact understanding.

The best way to obtain truth and wisdom is not to ask from books, but to go to God in prayer, and obtain divine teaching.

I was born ready.' Zoe to Fee.

You want to know what a robot's designed for. And if it's doing something outside the scope of what it's made to do, you should be very suspicious.

Nothing in his touch said he considered her fractured, considered her damaged goods, and that gave her a freedom she wouldn't have believed possible.

No temporary chaos is worth your sanity. Just knowing that whatever happens, it happens to the best of them too.

The soul - your soul - knows all there is to know all the time. There's nothing hidden to it, nothing unknown. Yet knowing is not enough. The soul seeks to experience.

You can find that sort of regularity in Stock Exchange quotations. [Expressing his lack of confidence in reported regularities in the periodic classification of elements.]

What's important is friendship and family and love.

Only that which is got by hard effort will yield lasting benefit.